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Subject: EDUCNumber: 793
Title: Driving Force: Keys to Developing a Motivating Classroom
Level: GraduateMedium: Text-based
Semester: On-goingUnits: 3
Cost: $360Register: Online Registration (LEI courses)
Description: 
Explore dozens of strategies to more effectively engage and motivate your students. Learn how to engage students more fully in the following areas: homework, literacy development, classroom procedures, and progress tracking. Examine ways of making your classroom more positive, more inviting, and more conducive to student learning and student success.
Objectives: 
  1. Know factors and situations that are likely to promote or diminish intrinsic motivation and how to help students become self-motivated.
  2. Learn how to establish a positive climate in the classroom.
  3. Use different motivational strategies that are likely to encourage continuous development of individual learner abilities.
  4. Engage students in individual and group learning activities that help them develop the motivation to achieve, by relating lessons to students' personal interests and allowing students to have choices in their learning.
  5. Understand the benefits of the backward design approach of lesson planning.
Textbook: NA
Instructor: Kyle Pederson, Joe Cotter, Dr. William Martin
Website Updated: September 2, 2008
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